Saturday, April 22, 2017

Learning from Students: Narrative poems

Here's another example from my adult students sharing poetry with young people in my "learning from my students' students" series.

Here, Jennifer responded to PowerPack 7 of Here We Go herself!

First, she tried the PowerPlay activity.

Then she created original digital poem postcards for each of the three poems in the PowerPack. Here are two digital postcards for two response poems by Janet Wong:

Finally, Jennifer also recommended additional resource books that students might enjoy in her final slide and included a variety of types of books that woven together verse, prose, and a look at Ramadan more closely.

About Me

Sylvia Vardell is a professor and author of the ALA bestseller POETRY ALOUD HERE, also POETRY PEOPLE, CHILDREN'S LITERATURE IN ACTION, and the co-editor of THE POETRY FRIDAY ANTHOLOGY series (for K-5 and for 6-8), as well as the first digital anthologies of poetry for young people, the POETRY TAG TIME series-- all in collaboration with poet Janet Wong. Vardell is also the poetry columnist for ALA’s BOOK LINKS magazine. A frequent speaker at conferences, Vardell chaired the NCTE Poetry Award committee and has served as a consultant to the Poetry Foundation.